UN says 50,000 Gazans fled through corridor set up by IDF, municipal wells shut down

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordinator of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 50,000 Palestinians have been evacuated from the northern Gaza Strip to the southern Gaza Strip through a humanitarian corridor set up by Israel. The evacuation was made possible by the first formal humanitarian cease-fire implemented by the Israel Defense Forces in several areas of the northern Gaza Strip under pressure from the Biden administration. It was the sixth consecutive day that the IDF allowed the evacuation of civilians to the south through the Salah al-Din Humanitarian Corridor. Within seven hours, 50,000 people were evacuated. The UN office says just 65 trucks of humanitarian aid entered Gaza on Thursday after two days in a row in which the number was closer to the initial US goal of 100. OCHA called Thursday`s figure “wholly inadequate”. Thursday saw all municipal water wells shut down due to lack of fuel, after several days of limited operation, OCHA adds. As a result, the trucking and pumping of brackish water for non-drinking domestic uses came to a halt. One of the two desalination plants in southern Gaza also shut down due to a lack of fuel, while the other operated at roughly five percent capacity. OCHA said no bakeries were open as of Thursday due to shortages of fuel, water and flour, and many bakeries were damaged in the fighting.The Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health says the death toll in Gaza has reached 10,818 people, but that number is unverified and includes deceptive Palestinian rocket attacks. It is believed to include civilians killed by Israel, as well as fighters killed by Israel.